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Gilbane Co. quality ethic, technology a lucrative mix

FASTEST GROWING COMPANIES | $75M and above | 5TH PLACE Gilbane Co., the Providence-based global construction firm, has prospered because of qualities that reach into...
BANKNEWPORT has acquired Offshore Financial Corp. to operate as its marine-financing division./COURTESY OF BANKNEWPORT

BankNewport balances digital, brick and mortar services

FASTEST GROWING COMPANIES | $25M-$75M | 5TH PLACE As one of the oldest mutual savings banks in the United States, BankNewport has successfully balanced its...

Budget discipline fuels Site Specific

FASTEST GROWING COMPANIES | $5M-$25M | 5TH PLACE Site Specific LLC has come a long way from its beginnings in 2004, when co-founder Peter Crump...

Re/Max Flagship marks record revenue despite low housing supply

FASTEST GROWING COMPANIES | $250,000-$5M | 5TH PLACE A lack of inventory in the housing market was no problem for Re/Max Flagship this past year. “We...
FULLY ENGAGED: Shawmut Design and Construction employees own the company, which leads to them acting as owners looking to create solutions to difficult challenges. / PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

Flexible work schedules empower employees, add to innovation

INNOVATIVE COMPANIES | ARCHITECTURE, CONSTRUCTION & ENGINEERING Construction management firm Shawmut Design and Construction possesses a reputation for completing complex and challenging projects. Each employee...
A FRESH START: BI Medical helps solve a bacteria and odor issue for lower-leg amputees. At the company’s West Greenwich headquarters are, from left: James Wagner, CEO and president; Elizabeth Stone, business director; Michael Stone, director of research; and Jay Vincelli, laboratory director. / PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

Company finds solution for lower-leg amputees

INNOVATIVE COMPANIES | BIOTECHNOLOGY AND LIFE SCIENCES In his 35 years as a surgeon, Brown University professor and emeritus director of orthopedic trauma at Rhode...

FGIC winners cream of R.I.’s crop

Providence Business News’ annual Fastest Growing & Innovative Companies program is an antidote to the pessimism that can overtake too many people. On Sept....
REWIRING EDUCATION: Bryant University’s Academic Innovation Center includes breakout rooms for study and project work that support group learning. Here, Catherine Emond, class of 2017, writes on a glass board with other members of her study group engaged as well. / COURTESY BRYANT UNIVERSITY

Bryant’s Innovation Center is transforming teaching, learning

INNOVATIVE COMPANIES | EDUCATION Bryant University’s visually striking Academic Innovation Center, which opened September 2016, is designed to shun passive learning and lengthy lecturing. Instead,...
CHARGED UP: PowerDocks has placed a 20-by-20-foot charging platform in Newport harbor. Using it with an eCraft boat are, from left, Rufus Van Gruisen, president of Cay Electronics Inc. and eCraft Yachts; Anthony Baro, managing partner of PowerDocks; and Chris Fagan, principal of PowerDocks. / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

PowerDocks helps improve environmental footprint of marine industry

INNOVATIVE COMPANIES | ENERGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT PowerDocks LLC, founded last year by Chris Fagan and Anthony Baro and located in Newport and Fall River,...
NETWORKED CARE: Rhode Island Quality Institute’s CurrentCare and its new Care Management Dashboard help patients and providers make more informed and timely decisions. From left: Michael Dwyer, director of risk management and compliance; Laura Adams, CEO and president; Faye Howard, director of operations. / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Opioid crisis shines light on value of RIQI’s work

INNOVATIVE COMPANIES | HEALTH CARE An emergency room patient often arrives with a blank medical slate. Most people aren’t in any condition to give a...
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